Nashorn in the Twitterverse

I have been following how often Nashorn has been showing up on the net. Nashorn got a burst of tweets when we announced Project Nashorn and I was curious how Nashorn was trending per day, maybe graph the result. Counting tweets manually seemed mindless, so why not write a program to do the same.

This is where Nashorn + Java came shining through. There is a very nice Java library out there called Twitter4J https://github.com/yusuke/twitter4j that handles all things Twitter. After running bin/getAccessToken.sh to get a twitter4j.properties file with personal authorization, all I had to do to run my simple exploratory app was;